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by Lascaille 5y ago
> larger sites like Allrecipes But the problem here really is the consumer. In the past, people would have bought a recipe book or subscribed to a cooking magazine and thought nothing abnormal about having to exchange money for data. Now
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This is the other reason Google is failing to return good results; so much forum-type content has moved to Discord.
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> I haven't worked there in over a decade, but if I worked there now, I would definitely be scraping eBay and all the other sites and closely monitoring all the accounts that I see for sale. I think if you did that you would rapidly
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> the automation less obvious and also using enough real interaction you could do massive manipulation I think this has already been done with r/politics. I've created new reddit accounts to argue with people on there a few tim
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>chicken and egg problem with karma because most subreddits require a minimum amount to post. Create your own subreddit and seed it with content directly copied from other subreddits then have your bots all upvote each other.
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> which sites to depritoritise But do you think there are actually enough good sites left that contain quality content? As has been mentioned elsewhere, are people actually still writing product reviews that are organic and not sponsored
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>This incentivizes publishers to write a lot of text that covers multiple related topics Is it accurate to call organisations that write text according to google's incentives 'publishers' or are they merely spammers trying
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'Garage band jamming with my fellow orkuteers' was a meme before image macros even existed
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Just use it and see for yourself. It's almost a 100% different user experience.
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I often wonder how much modern IT infrastructure is simply this mess of 'we have no idea how it really works' blackboxes strung together with API calls. I suspect you're right about how much of a true understanding they (at g
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> SEO hacking is not possible if a search engine is just a search engine Uh, yes it is. If the owner of the site being searched is generating profit from that site being searched then they will game the search engine's algorithm to
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> People could certainly run hand-curated indexes Do you think there's a lot of good content out there left to index?
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You say it's a machine for printing money in a topic about people complaining that it doesn't work any more. It may have been but it won't be forever if things keep going the way they're going. Quality content is already
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This sounds like filter-bubbling. From what I can tell, Google doesn't have user specific filter bubble but user-category filter bubbles, and it's constantly updating the category of users it thinks you're in.
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Software is the most toxic environment possible for freshness bias. Every month it seems like there's a new framework/ecosystem/whatever and everyone's migrating to it and you're behind the times if you're not
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That only works if you validate users, otherwise the trust database becomes 99% the result of the actions of SEO firms.
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Reddit also - in my opinon - actively enables shilling and botposting. Why do they have an API? A forum that's meant to be 100% about humans talking to humans doesn't need an API, so why does it expose one? Also the model of user-
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It isn't so much that 'google doesn't know how to filter them out' but there's nothing left after having filtered them out. Nobody is producing real content that isn't behind a paywall. There's nothing to
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I've also thought that. The reddit shutdown made the frontpage of (reputable) news sources, I can't imagine that investors aren't going to be asking the admins how much control they really have over the user experience on any